According to Joanna Gaines, she once was a perfectionist who needed to be in control. But in writing her new book and first solo memoir, The Stories We Tell, she discovered “the root insecurity of ...

Unhealthy perfectionism's preoccupation with infinitely increasing status and security misses the ingredient that makes ...

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Writing can take a lot of time. Sometimes that's because research needs to be done; sometimes the business owner you're working with may have unexpected changes; and sometimes you can be your own ...

Last week, I launched this series on academic perfectionism based on a few core assumptions: 1) perfectionism is a pervasive problem for academic writers, 2) the culture of the academy exacerbates ...

One of the most pervasive problems I see among academic writers is perfectionism. It's so ubiquitous and manifests in so many ugly ways that I’ve decided to dedicate a five-part series to overcoming ...

2021 CBC Short Story Prize winner on writing her short story collection The Whole Animal The Whole Animal is a collection of short stories that examines the power, strangeness and attributes of human ...